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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






2. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






3. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






4. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






5. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






6. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






7. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






8. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






9. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






10. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






11. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors






12. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






13. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






14. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






15. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






16. A product - result or service generated by a process






17. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






18. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






19. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






20. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram






21. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






22. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






23. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






24. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






25. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






26. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






27. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






28. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






29. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






30. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






31. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






32. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






33. A method of estimating a component of work. the work is decomposed into more detail. an estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work - and these estimates are then aggregated into






34. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






35. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






36. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






37. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






38. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






39. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






40. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






41. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






42. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






43. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






44. The process of completing each project procurement






45. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






46. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






47. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






48. Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities






49. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






50. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information